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  • This volume will include an introduction and two final, synoptic essays, as well as contributions from some of the most prominent thinkers on religion and art including Thierry De Duve, Georges…
    Re-Enchantment

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    By James Elkins rating of short cover   ( 3 customer ratings) Routledge, October 2008 ISBN: 9780203891667 Language:  English
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  • Written from the perspective of a painter-turned-art-historian, James Elkins' highly original work communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history by focusing…
    What Painting Is

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    What Painting Is

    By James Elkins rating of short cover   ( 182 customer ratings) Routledge, May 2000 ISBN: 9780203011614 Language:  English
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  • Unlike many books on painting that usually talk about art or painters, James Elkins’ compelling and original work focuses on alchemy, for like the alchemist, the painter seeks to transform and be…
    What Painting Is

    What Painting Is

    By James Elkins rating of short cover   ( 182 customer ratings) Taylor and Francis, September 1998 ISBN: 9781135958527 General Art, Art History Language:  English
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  • In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting…
    What Photography Is

    What Photography Is

    By James Elkins rating of short cover   ( 8 customer ratings) Taylor and Francis, July 2011 ISBN: 9781135844424 Art & Architecture, Photography Language:  English
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  • In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting…
    What Photography Is

    What Photography Is

    By James Elkins rating of short cover   ( 8 customer ratings) Taylor and Francis, May 2011 ISBN: 9780203886489 Art & Architecture, Photography Language:  English
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  • James Elkins's How to Use Your Eyes invites us to look at--and maybe to see for the first time--the world around us, with breathtaking results. Here are the common artifacts of life, often…
    How To Use Your Eyes

    How To Use Your Eyes

    By James Elkins rating of short cover   ( 65 customer ratings) Taylor and Francis, August 2007 ISBN: 9781135961602 Art & Architecture, General Art Language:  English
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  • This deeply personal account of emotion and vulnerability draws upon anecdotes related to individual works of art to present a chronicle of how people have shown emotion before works of art in the…
    Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

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    Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

    By James Elkins rating of short cover   ( 85 customer ratings) Routledge, September 2001 ISBN: 9780203990322 Language:  English
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  • Renaissance Theory

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    Renaissance Theory

    By James Elkins rating of short cover   ( 2 customer ratings) Routledge, April 2008 ISBN: 9780203929865 Language:  English
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  • Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life," but does that mean that contemporary art is spiritual…
    On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art

    On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art

    By James Elkins rating of short cover   ( 30 customer ratings) Taylor and Francis, September 2004 ISBN: 9781135879709 Art History, Religious Language:  English
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  • With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the twentieth century than they had been in any previous century. Why Are Our Pictures…
    Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?

    Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? - On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity

    By James Elkins rating of short cover   ( 5 customer ratings) Taylor and Francis, January 1999 ISBN: 9781135963569 General Art, Art History Language:  English
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